In an age of plastic knives on planes, Tony Wheeler can make the extraordinary claim of having visited all the rogue countries currently on newreaders' lip. "Badlands" is a witty first-hand account of his travels through some of the most repressive and dangerous regimes in the world: Afghanistan, Al[...]

Greedy Lords, Dubious heroes, wicked relations and innocents in peril today s world sounds like a grim fairytale. Travelling along the infamous Axis of Evil led to "Tony Wheeler s Bad Lands"-- now he s going deeper into the world s darkest corners to explore a rogue s gallery of troubled nations. Ev[...]